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and Mr Abraham Cowley, conversation between, touching the great Civil War. His great modern epic. Dryden's admiration for his genius. Mirabeau, Souvenirs sur, etc., M. Dumont's review of. M. Dumont's picture of Mirabeau in the National Assembly. Mirabeau compared to Wilkes. And to the Earl of Chatham. Mitford, Mr, criticism on his History of Greece. His principal characteristic as a historian. Errors of almost all the most modern historians of Greece. Estimation in which the later ancient writers have been held. Differences between Mr Mitford and the historians who have preceded him. His love of singularity. His hatred of democracy. And love of the oligarchical form of government. His illogical inferences and false statements. His inconsistency with himself. His deficiencies. Charges of misrepresentation brought against him as a historian. Monarchical form of government, Mr Mill's view of a. Moncontour, the Battle of. Mountain, sketch of the party in the French Convention so called. Votes for the death of the King. Its victory over the Girondists. Tyranny of the Mountain. Violence of public opinion against it. Naseby, the Battle of. National Assembly, the French. Mr Burke's character of them. M. Dumont's picture of the Assembly. Nollekens, his cenotaph of Oliver Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey. Nonconformists, relief of, by Charles II. North, Lord, and the American difficulties. Resignation of his ministry. The Coalition. End of the Coalition. Ode on St Cecilia's Day of Dryden; its character. Oleron, Barere, Billaud, and Collot d'Herbois imprisoned at. Oligarchy, Mr Mitford's love of pure. Examination of this sentiment. The growth of genius always stunted by oligarchy. Mr Mill's view of an oligarchical form of government. Opinion, good, of the public, causes of our regard for the. Orators, Athenian. Oratory: Excellence to which eloquence attained at Athens. Circumstances favourable to this result. Principles upon which poetry is to be estimated. Causes of the difference between the English and Athenian orators. The history of eloquence at Athens. Speeches of the ancients, as transmitted to us by Thucydides. Period
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